2017
DOI: 10.1515/multi-2017-3048
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Assessing forty years of language planning on the vitality of the Francophone and Anglophone communities of Quebec

Abstract: This article analyses how language laws favouring French improved the vitality of the Francophone majority relative to the declining Anglophone minority of Quebec. Part one provides a review of Canadian Government efforts to provide federal bilingual services to Francophones and Anglophones across Canada. Using the ethnolinguistic vitality framework, part two reviews key language policies adopted in Quebec designed to increase the status of French relative to English in the province, while part 3 assesses the … Show more

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“…As Anctil (1996, 143) explains, this model aims to achieve 'the meeting of cultures, their mutual interpenetration and the reciprocal recognition of their respective contributions, within a common civic culture and a French-speaking framework.' An important piece of the ideology underlying Quebec's language policy is the notion that French language and culture are constantly under threat from internal and external forces (Bourhis and Sioufi 2017;Oakes and Warren 2007). Such a cultural and linguistic insecurity is, in fact, a common sentiment among minority nations (Turgeon and Bilodeau 2014).…”
Section: Interculturalism As Language Policymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Anctil (1996, 143) explains, this model aims to achieve 'the meeting of cultures, their mutual interpenetration and the reciprocal recognition of their respective contributions, within a common civic culture and a French-speaking framework.' An important piece of the ideology underlying Quebec's language policy is the notion that French language and culture are constantly under threat from internal and external forces (Bourhis and Sioufi 2017;Oakes and Warren 2007). Such a cultural and linguistic insecurity is, in fact, a common sentiment among minority nations (Turgeon and Bilodeau 2014).…”
Section: Interculturalism As Language Policymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Do Quebecers, who are becoming more and more multicultural and multiethnic, want to preserve a French Canadian identity and language or do they accept the possibility that in the long run they might assimilate to the English language and to Anglo‐American culture such as the Cajuns of Louisiana? Over the past 40 years, Quebec's language policies have been a success in preserving French as the official and dominant language (Hamers & Hummel, 1994, Bourhis & Sioufi, 2017), but not without causing friction with the English‐speaking community (Woolfson, 1983) and even an exodus (Maheu, 1983; Pettinicchio, 2012). In this period, measures have been implemented to favour immigrants from French‐speaking countries as a means of sustaining the French language.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, immigrants entering Quebec may well assimilate to the English language, particularly in Montreal, the provincial metropole. The linguistic question is a central theme in Quebec politics since the province's parliament passed laws concerning the use of the French language in the workplace, in education, and in public spaces (Woolfson, 1983;Hamers & Hummel, 1994;Termote, 2015;Bilodeau, 2016;Kircher 2016;Bourhis & Sioufi, 2017). The use of French is strongly influenced by the DW of the EFC (Maheu, 1973) as well as the assimilation of immigrants to the French language (Ouellette, 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Quarante ans plus tard, le nombre d'élèves dans le système scolaire anglophones n'était plus que de 105 205 élèves, soit seulement 40 % de ses effectifs originaux (Bourhis et Foucher, 2012). Les données du ministère démontrent l'efficacité de la loi 101 puisque les élèves allophones qui fréquentent les écoles francophones sont passés de 9652 en 1972 à 119 060 en 2012 (Bourhis et Sioufi, 2017). La loi 101 a porté ses fruits pour le système scolaire francophone qui a conquis l'inscription des élèves immigrants incluant ceux d'origine italienne.…”
Section: Brève Histoire De La Communauté Italienne éTablie Au Québecunclassified